Chad G.

!!!!! Thanks Ron, some excellent mibs in anybody's book !! Somebody @ the factory had it goin on.

The two top example's look almost as if they came off the roller's right behind each other, nice window's, I keep lookin for the clear coral but always has some type of irreconcilable damage, i.e. fractures or heavy use, maybe I just need to look a little harder, thanks for posting the pics, I'll stumble across a few good one's some day, keep's it interesting, by the way first time I've ever seen metalic in a coral marble. Nice!! Chad G.

Killer mibb !!!

Can't wait !! Thanks for all the effort Chuck and all involved !! Who knows what will be found, a lasting memory that's for sure. Chad G.

Glad to hear you're finally getting time to make extra room Steph. I live iv a 2 bed room apt. now and space is @ a premium around here. I have no choice but to box some up that I would much rather have on display. The reason I collected the stuff in the first place. Glad you liked the post, yes oodles of those pinchers around.

"Nice pics Bruce", I know they where production oriented, maybe pumped out a lot of these, or not !! Have any ideas ?? Thanks for posting !!

I have a few hand made examples, please post yours if you have them. 1 mica, 1 glazed clay and 1 banded agate. Most of these just came along w/ lots I bought a while back, the mica and a couple other's are extremely small, I've probably dropped them @ least 50 time's, thank goodness always on carpeting. Thanks, Chad G.

I must get those wall mounted cases built, many already in box cases, I forget what's in them. everything full, creativity in my case , the mother of invention. Thanks for all the great ideas and the outstanding displays, maybe eliminate some non mib related stuff ??

I've found some more patche's, oh joy, a bunch of my favorites a bunch multiple marble identifier's all present on one mib. w/ contention over their identification even between seasoned patch collectors. I'm still hangin on to them, some day ( I believe ) I will some day I will become proficient at their I.D., I hope.

I had a bunch but didn't keep them because of condition, played w/ alot, just waiting to see if I get some more, not that desirable in the white base color mixes I know but I believe time will tell. Thanks for posting, get some pic's posted if you can , I just don't see alot, I know they're around and would like to see more. Thanks again. Chad G.

9/16th's to 11/16th's a few more.

A mix of some hand made and machine made, incl. glazed clay, mica, banded agate. I have some alley furnace and allay pee-wee's but I believe I have already posted them.

Thanks for posting the pics Ron a piece of history going to be gone soon, needed something, @ least you get one more shot. Regards, Chad G.

3 pot ID's for Akro china. The 3rd is the thumb pot to small I think for a crow, every one I've seen only has a letter and #'s. Two of these are highly uv.

Loving the new pics of the sept dig @ the Heaton site, wish I lived closer, like a treasure hunt , many new mib's and new one of a kind plastic bag found, hopefully another dig before it's covered up !! Not all of my marbles are wet , some of my favorite Akro's are dug examples. Steph posted pic's of the bag on a separate thread, looked @ the dig pics on AAM, posted by cheese, can't get enough.

Here's the biggest one I have, plain jane yellow and white but in mint shape, not a whole lot of these big one's around still in good shape, or any shape for that matter.

This a little Akro children's china thumb pot, highly uv., Small Akro china is one of my favorite marble related thing's to collect. The little clear spot on the bottom is a punch out for drainage, children punched almost all of these out, especially in the med. sized ones.

I had and still have a lot of reference book's, a great deal of help when I started trying to I.D. the thousand's of kind's of marbles. Getting better but the learning will never quit. Here are a few that helped me a great deal, the old original Grist's book's I had years ago and a few other's I no longer have, disappeared in a move. Here's some I use for referencing and identification. The large hardback's by Stanley Block are excellent for I.D. purposes, I have found them all very helpful, and still do. Have many more but these will get you going, they did me.

The second stand w/ jabos in it is the alley insulator. I made a mistake in identification, thanks for catchin that Ron, I appreciate it.

It' Christmas time !! Hope this work's. These are the pics of the tiny clearies I told ya I would take Steph. Sorry a few Japanese pincher mibs slipped in there, still tiny but not clearie's. OOp's 1 yellow translucent. I "can't remember" where the crackle mib came from, or any of these for that matter, a common marble collectors affliction. I forgot I was going to put them on top of a Christmas stocking before the pic's !! Hope seeing these shiny little gems bring back some fond memories.

Block and a few others have written entire books on transitional marbles.

Morning Chuck, Took your advice and went to AAM and continued to view the dig & mibs + looked @ the old posts also. Many new ones, an excellent thread. Can't get over how many dug mibs display characteristics of other manufacturers, Hmm I believe we all know what conspired with nearly all these companies. Cool bag, hopefully you all get 1 more swing @ the property before it's gone and find some more 1 offs. Thanks for sharing and all the hard work !!! Chad G.

82 - 84 when I was in Perth, I sure didn't want to leave, I remember a place called "pinocios " the pool balls over there are as big as pig pong ball's. I remember thinking I was pretty good @ it till I played a local, treated with great respect there. Thanks again for the great pics

Thanks for chiming back in all I was gettin worried.

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